skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I thought it was universally understood that Apple has been working toward ending its dependency on Google Search for about a decade.

One can witness the firepower of Apple's fully armed and operational search engine today, which is hidden in plain sight: https://imgur.com/a/SThluBm.

That said, Apple should not end its Google Search partnership until one of the following occurs: (1) it's strategically important for Apple to provide Safari's default search engine, (2) a government mandates that Google can no longer pay (or pay Apple) for the privilege of being Safari's default search engine, or (3) people stop preferring Google search by a wide margin.

(1) Making Apple Search the default for Safari would cost Apple $20 million per year, but could open up a bunch of new revenue streams and potentially provide a much better search experience for Apple users (especially if Apple's GPT partner isn't Google).

(2) If the EU mandates that Google can no longer pay-to-play in general, or can't do so with Apple in particular, no problem. Users will choose their search engine on a platform where Apple has a home-field advantage.

(3) In the extremely unlikely event that Google goes from hero to zero in search, boom — Apple Search is ready.

In summary, this is a terrible time for Apple to stop taking Google's money. They should wait until the GenAI players settle down, until the advertising part of the business matures and can capitalize on the change, and until governments stop looking for limbs to chop off.
Programming Purpose
Isn't the libertarian view on progressive income tax that it reduces the marginal returns on additional labor, thus removing the incentive for people to work harder and being more productive? Why would the reverse be true for people who work in private equity?
Of course they will not. If you look at everything they propose there is always that one thing that makes them control everything. Their IMAP bridge, key generation etc
interesting to see the VSU 2010 reference, that was when all the great software architecture features released with Visual Studio, very powerful stuff.

> Works with Visual Studio 2010
> Yes, if the competitors are colluding to share their price history with competitors for the purposes of market manipulation.

The issue is that this sharing is only done so that they don’t have to waste bandwidth and cpu cycles scraping prices they already know from their competitors’ websites.

Is it collusion if everyone is shopping their competitors prices?

Or is it illegal to use the same math equations in the same order?

and might I add, imagine this algorithm is possibly “the most perfect algorithm at generating positive rent growth” to which there is no improvements possible, so a government body forcing you to create your own algorithm could be de-facto government sabotage. It would be like the government preventing railroad operators from using the same ticket pricing calculation minimumPrice = miles * costPerMile + flatCosts
Why are ProtonMail keeping this IP and email information in their logs?
Both this fork (Lix) and the other one (Aux - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40200343) appeared in the context of the recent Nix drama, related submissions on which are presented below:

Open letter to the NixOS foundation (50 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40107370

The dire state of NixOS's moderation culture (87 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40166912

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Additionally, these r/NixOS submissions may be of interest:

Jon Ringer: "In case I'm unable to return, wish you all the best" (348 comments) https://old.reddit.com/r/NixOS/comments/1cd5fod/in_case_im_u...

Transparency about jonringer's suspension (153 comments) https://old.reddit.com/r/NixOS/comments/1ceeg8h/transparency...

Thoughts on Jon Ringer's temporary suspension (71 comments) https://old.reddit.com/r/NixOS/comments/1ceiz36/thoughts_on_...

Moderation no-go zones (55 comments; ongoing) https://old.reddit.com/r/NixOS/comments/1cfv8vo/moderation_n...

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Finally, the RFC to improve the situation:

https://github.com/NixOS/rfcs/pull/175
19 days ago[0] (17 points)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40068206
For a pure cognitive specialty, sure. But watch out if they want to do any procedures outside of a hospital. The capital / regulatory heavy specialties are getting PE-roll-upped and that’s the same story as Veterinarians.

The new world is that we are becoming bound to hospitals / private equity in a way akin to sharecroppers on a plantation, mostly because of regulatory uncertainty which requires tremendous capital to overcome.

Some states are making it easier for surgeons to open surgicenters, but those are still very tightly regulated. Same with freestanding ERs, birthing centers, radiation therapy treatment centers, or freestanding imaging centers. Even if I wanted to raise the capital myself, the regulatory uncertainty makes the playing ground so unfair that it is functionally impossible without bringing in PE money to fund the legal fight for approval.

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I trawled the approvals this year in my state.

Hospital joint venture with PE-backed imaging chain gets approval to open new freestanding imaging centers. They have the funds to fight back against the other systems’ legal challenges.

Radiologist owned 20 year old magnet who literally charges cash price of $499 (compared to above hospital planning to charge $1911 vs $6000 in hospital) was denied permission to upgrade to a newer magnet.

Physician practice request to buy a PETCT blocked by a competing hospital for 2 years of litigation, now referred to state Supreme Court…

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It doesn’t make sense that I can open a medispa and offer laser dermabrasion and other cosmetic services easier than I can open an imaging center. My options are join a hospital or join PE (rad partners or USRS).

Honestly I should move.
Rendering HTML emails in the browser is rather tricky business, because HTML/CSS isolation mechanisms are non-existent or come with a lot of caveats. You want to make sure your layout doesn't get screwed because of some bonkers HTML/CSS but you also don't want the intended layout of the email to be completely screwed.

It's been a long while since I worked on this, but I was always very hesitant to make changes here, because we knew that our current thing worked for almost all customers, and you never knew what changes would break what.

We dogfooded our own client, and at some point a change I made broke the automated SIDN (which manages .nl TLD) emails. I forgot what exactly it was, but they did some really weird stuff. You can't just shrug and say "oh well, that's just crazy, fix your emails" because people do need those emails and getting these types of organisations to take action is like moving a mountain.
You expect apps to have no access to a simple monotonic timer?
> I didn’t say it was easy.

Personally I don't use "sweet" to refer to an opportunity to do something difficult that only partially remediates the problem, but okay.

> The wonderful thing about capitalism is that when profits get high, people start doing things that aren’t easy and they go down.

With big companies doing their best to set up barriers, things stay not-easy and prices don't go back down to where they used to be. That only prevents prices from getting infinitely high. Usually.
In a similar vein is Scott Manley's 2020 panoramic video "What Would Travelling Through A Wormhole Look Like?" [0] (and its sequel "Wormholes Get Weirder" [1]), in which he simulates a camera flying through a particular model of a wormhole [2]. Though for reasons noted in the paper, the wormhole as presented is likely non-physical.

[0] https://youtu.be/V7e-1bRpweo

[1] https://youtu.be/PVO8nvb1o2w

[2] https://arxiv.org/abs/1502.03809
Link to the summaries here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HMZn7xJQFOnVtw8MAc27EAFz...

feel free to be candid if this is "just as good as throwing it to GPT4/Claude/Gemini"
Yes and yes.

But why would they do it? They also can have trump.
My sincere condolences about your cat. I also had a cat with kidney disease, and the veterinary system was not very helpful about treatment. I had to learn most of it on my own. The "prescription" pet food situation is an example of free market entities subverting regulatory agencies.

"Prescription" pet foods exist only through a selective lack of enforcement by the FDA. The manufacturers make claims that the food treats specific medical conditions. That's a drug claim. By law they would be required to test for efficacy and have it approved as a drug. But the FDA chooses to allow manufacturers to sell pet food that makes drug claims without testing or approval so long as they contract with veterinarians to only sell it under "prescription." It's not a prescription (it's not a drug!), it's a way to skirt regulation.

For kidney disease you want foods high in moisture, moderate in protein and low in phosphorous. You can buy foods that meet these requirements at your pet food store. There are options that are much higher quality than said "prescription" foods hawked by Hills, Royal Canin and the like. They're just not advertised as treating kidney disease because they don't make inappropriate drug claims!
"The US withdrew from Afghanistan, but that is clearly Central Asia and not South Asia (unless it's defined differently in India?)."

India considers Afghanistan part of or ought to be part of India. It even has a map for it.

https://moderndiplomacy.eu/2022/09/30/bjps-akhand-bharat-dre...
This should be solved by moderation when necessary, like in traditional web forums. I agree that voting is a bad mechanism, because people then start posting for likes and reaction stats, and also involuntarily judge posts by their like count instead of only by their own judgement. Flagging/reporting to moderators is fine.
The NixOS community is currently discussing how to appoint a constitutional assembly within 2 weeks (that assembly will decide how to do community governance for the project). The discussions happen on Zulip: https://nixpkgs.zulipchat.com/ - and you can request an invite if you've contributed before.

Notable threads, which may be relevant to explain why these forks were created include:

- https://nixpkgs.zulipchat.com/#narrow/stream/435937-constitu...

- https://nixpkgs.zulipchat.com/#narrow/stream/435724-governan...

- https://nixpkgs.zulipchat.com/#narrow/stream/435937-constitu...
Swiss laws protect Swiss banks and their clients. No big money, no privacy laws.
IIRC not to Meta themselves but to Meta's customers (I mean, the advertisers, which are the ones who pay. You the user aren't Meta's customer, you are their product) but it's been a long time since I hear Criteo's technical pitch so I don't remember how it works.
could be the animations, hard to tell if its live or prerecorded with jank removed but the visual they post is very fluid and responsive. If that's the life performance that app is pretty fast.
Who else saw QUAMELEON and heard the "COCOMELON!" sound in their head?
I expect privacy theater; I err towards having opinions that enforce privacy - i.e. a time that's guaranteed to be x seconds since the app first started after system boot can be used to diminish privacy
This. I don't mind paying more, but it must be worth it.
At Google/Meta's scale, there is / ought to be less room for such "genuine mistakes" as they have the resources and clout to preempt them.
Although your comment is unnecessary strongly worded, you raise some very serious points.

Especially Japanese - English entertainment media translations, it is very often pretty apparent that there is some kind of agenda behind translation of such works (even with translators admitting it them self doing so in comments / messages on different social media platforms).

Something I just wonder is, why does especially this niche part of this profession (translating Japanese entertainment media) attract people doing so and even let them admit to make it more culturally appropriate for western markets?

It's really an interesting phenomena.
It is possible that my brain had been damaged by convention, but it looks much tidier to have your vector multiplicand on the right of the matrix when doing a matrix vector multiplication y=Ax, where A is the matrix and x is the vector, y is the result.

So, x and y must be columns. So, it is nice if our language has column-order as the default, that way a vector is also just a good old 1d array.

If we did y=xA, x and y would be rows, the actual math would be the same but… I dunno, isn’t it just hideous? Ax is like a sentence, it should start with an upper case!

It also fits well with how we tend to learn math. First we learn about functions, f(x). Then we learn that a function can be an operator. And a matrix can represent a linear operator. So, we tend to have a long history of stuff sitting to the left of x getting ready to transform it.
My point is this: we put labels on things, but it doesn't mean there isn't some independent thing we can point to that causes it to be that thing. There is no candleness that imbues an object to make it a candle.

Likewise, a feeling of red isn't due to some mysterious redness. It is just the label we put on a particular configuration of neural activation. No need to make it mysterious until someone shows that more is required to explain it.
Hofstadter wrote a whole book on it - "Le ton beau de Marot"
OTOH, not being connected to the mains is probably a lot safer, especially if you use it in the bathroom.
Nice. Is this using javascript to render?
I think Apple Search is (sort of) already the default in Safari. The top result is (as far as I know) from Apple's search engine instead of Google.
Honestly I think the iPhone UI is vastly inferior to Androids. I mean, jesus, they didn't even have folders or widgets until a couple of years ago.
> arbitrary choices made a long time ago that became standards

That sounds like a description of culture.

> If it was cultural then newer designs like computer interfaces would be affected.

Does the big TV run by a computer not count as an interface?

Okay, do you have some pictures of chinese stock websites?

> Also you ignored traffic lights.

What about them? Yes Japan uses the same color scheme as the US for traffic lights. Because the idea spread that way. I don't see how that's relevant to either of my examples that talked about Japan?

...you're not suggesting that one situation where colors match invalidates situations where colors are different, right?
Ask HN: What do you want in an ideal VPN?
Every time I see a story about a VPN, there's a lot of complaints and demands about privacy, security, etc.

I'm curious, what would the ideal VPN be? Would they be based in a particular country (or does that even matter)?

How would they provide the transparency of operations without compromising the business itself?
Jack Dorsey leaves Bluesky board
Avoid it all? Like, just get sick and die? huh?
The identification came from the recovery email.
I'm not convinced this is unknown. How is this any different from say Karman vortices? I also question how well a paddlewheel in water scales to and models a birdwing in air.
Given the high bar that FAANG has set for filtering in self centered innovators, I bet some employees simply invented problems for solutions they already had at hand.
The “public” also means the private industrial sector, and nowadays they are by far the biggest threat for people living in the Western world.
It seems to me that “productivity” is being used here carelessly. It is a ratio of effort and resulting output. High productivity will produce more output given a specific effort, than low productivity, given that other factors like quality are constant.

Frankly, in software we cant even determine the extent and relationships between requirements, effort, quality and output in any predictable way. Given this, isn’t an attempt to produce some resulting measure like productivity meaningless?
> Scholarship on the Quran means what, to you, exactly?

The guy famously studied for like 20 years at Al-Azhar getting a bunch of degrees in Islamic scholarship from the largest mainstream Islamic school in the world. That's what I mean.

>To me it just sounds that he's an expert in convincing people that it is god's will to implement his agenda

Can you cite some controversial or not seen before analysis from any of his works? Most of his publications, that I'm aware of, are pretty standard interpretations of Islamic jurisprudence. It's nothing that would shock or surprise an average Muslim, imo.

>Taking the Quran as a source of absolute truth and then taking the further step of handing the reins of interpretation to some "preeminent scholar" is a recipe for exactly the kind of extremism that you see plaguing the Islamic world.

That's actually the kind of stuff he and other modernist Islamic scholars (Israr Ahmed is a similar scholar but for South Asia, where I'm from) were against. They both championed the idea that the Quran and Hadith are pretty clear and don't need expert opinion for many things. That people should take the time to read Arabic and read Quran and hadiths and they would not have much need for Sheikhs.

In general, this type of "democratic" or "non-hierarchical" view of Islamic scholarship is pretty modern. Older peoples (before the "extremism" you're talking about ostensibly) would have been much more hierarchical and rigid about the need to consult scholars rather than attempt to learn things oneself.

> Your and my claims about what Qaradawi is are not mutually exclusive, and are in fact deeply correlated.

So then you agree it's not a big deal that Al Jazeera has him on their network, since he's a pretty mainstream scholar? Okay, thanks for the chat I guess
"boot time plus random offset" is going to be just as much of a fingerprint as "boot time" is, though (the offset can't change once picked for a boot because the whole point is to be able to calculate the time between events in the app).

Something that reduces the granularity a lot, like "time since UTC 00:00:00 on the day of the last device boot", might work.
I think it won’t be long before open source models will be good enough to be good enough, such that the responsible thing to do (for those technically capable) will be to learn how to self-host them. Give it two, three years and I think there will be open models of GPT-4 ish quality that can be run on <$10k of hardware, customized and tuned based on whatever data you want them to be, and capable of agent-type behavior like searching the web. To have a tool like that self-hosted on a server that I control is what I’m waiting for.
I seen to recall having some Thinkpads which had a firmware setting that would irrecoverably break the management engine. It had a lot of scary warnings about disabling it, and likewise features like SGX wouldn't work properly from what I could tell. I think they were T460S'es, but I could be misremembering.
https://hiring.cafe/
Discussion [0] (51 points, 1 day ago, 15 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40267446
As a sibling comment already mentioned that doesn't really work for non-linear data. UMAP and t-SNE are techniques used on non-linear data.
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I am more of a Bosch fan though. Braun appliances are a bit "too much retro" for me. ;)
"Apple Maps, launched in 2012, initially faced several hiccups and criticisms, but today, it arguably matches or exceeds Google Maps in many areas." - not in my experience.

Also, concerning the "partnership", it is impossible to configure Google Maps on iOS as a default map handling application. Due to EU legislation Apple must change this (in the EU only) but this is supposed to happen in iOS 18 or something (in 2025).
"The researchers examined ENDS-related Instagram posts in December 2023, using a simulated 14-year-old female's profile to search hashtags such as #vapelife, #vapecommunity, and #ecig. The team reviewed 51 posts from these hashtags to assess the presence of health-related warnings and common themes."
- Direct Quote from the article

It's not marketing if people are searching hashtags.
Well to be fair I'm not sure if they kill the programs before or after disconnecting the VPN interface.

I'd sure hope it's before.
$ 20B a year is what google pays [1] + the cost of running and maintaining their engine.

$20B is a 1/6th of their operating margin for very little effort.

[1] this was revealed in the recent anti trust trial
I think it's poorly made, inconsistent and unintuitive no matter what you're used to.
Reddio, a public blockchain backed by investments from Tiger Cub Fund, Arena Holdings, and Paradigm, announces that its pioneering Layer 2 (L2) and Layer 3 (L3) application chain sequencer framework, Itachi, is now officially open source. This key milestone is part of the team's ongoing commitment to community-driven innovation and transparency.
Does it have a algorithom ?
Ask HN: Mouse exercise tool for a new input device?
I just got a desktop trackball, coming from a normal mouse. I want to find some kind of game or similar to drill point, click, drag, path follow, etc. to speed up the familiarization.

Everything I’m finding is aimed at teaching children and boomers to use a mouse and click on links. I’m looking for something to drill accuracy and speed, not teach me to use a computer.

Any ideas?
FFS. This is preposterous. A multi-tool is a beautifully engineered thing. A tool, widely applicable in the everyday. As Bruce Sterling writes in his Last Viridian Note:

“... a multitool IS a set of keys. It's a set of possible creative interventions in your immediate material environment. That is why you want a multitool. They are empowering.”

I carry one everywhere. I used the knife yesterday to open a taped-up cardboard box. In fact, that's one of the most used functions. That and the tweezers and scissors.

How can those blades be "weapons"? They don't lock! They're not designed for stabbing or anything like that, like a hunting knife. You'd be pretty desperate to threaten someone with one. If someone threatened me with a swiss-army knife I'd probably laugh at them.

“Stop the world, I want to get off”

[1] http://www.viridiandesign.org/2008/11/last-viridian-note.htm...
Same. The video looks interesting, but forcing a signup before disclosing any more caused me to click away. It's interesting, but not interesting enough to make me give them my details.

I'll wait and see if someone in my dev network recommends it now. Too bad, it did look interesting.
The first-time-the-app-called-the-api-since-device-boot is just as unique as device-boot-time.
Yes, you can definitely get very severe attacks from backdoored hardware. Some of them appear almost impossible to defend against with software alone.

On the bright side, it's hard to imagine that many of these attacks will be self-propagating, which is the particularly insidious thing about the Trusting Trust attack. Yes, hardware is used to design hardware, but typically in a more indirect and heterogeneous way than the "compiler compiling itself" scenario. To be concrete, I'd say Microsoft or Canonical has much more to fear from a Trusting Trust sort of attack than Intel does, but the software developers also have better options to contain or detect such an attack.
Without SpaceX DoD would locked into a single maker, but also into a Russian made engine. 5 years behind the schedule and only after congress mandated it n
I would suggest adding the output of `buildc help` to the README file, that's what I do with my programs.
lol nice, thanks for the tip! I had been reluctant to soil my phone with the app, but now I guess I have to.
Me, mostly. Crying is fine in your room or the shower.

Jesus cried twice in three years. There is a time and a place.
It's an exaggeration of what progressive taxes do. I'm not suggestion 95% of profits should be lost to taxes at 20 mil.